Does Collecting Certain Coins Create an Ethical Dilemma?

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since everyone else is showing off their "unethical" coins, i thought i'd show mine. it's the only one in my collection, and it's there because it's part of german history (which is part of my ancestry) and i collect german coins.

 

Well since our biases form our ethics how do I handle the fact that I have German coins that my father brought back from WWII. Then there is that German name tag that has my name on it that dad took off one of his distant cousins when he captured him too. And the fact is I even went so far as to let my daughter take them to school as part of a family heritage project years ago. She also took some Canadian coins she got from her other Gradfather.

We all have to live with what we are.

 

There are a number of books out there in a series called "What If?" that takes various historical scenarios and looks at them if there were alternate decisions taken. I find those books fascinating.

I also think that the decisions of the past profoundly effect the events of today, for good or ill.

I think the mainly Democrat appointed Supreme Court would have loved to put Lincoln in a fix by ruling secession legal. Lincoln being the first Republican Party president would not have had many appointments to the court.

 

I saw one of those on sale the other day at Barnes & Noble and I almost bought it. I have always wanted to read one...I think they would be really interesting. I can't remember what it was called but it had a picture of Big Ben on the cover with a Nazi banner on it.

 

There is a difference between making payments or accepting payments and making something a legal tender. And that clause does not restrict them from making a payment in something other than gold or silver. Of course the Federal Government could declare something else to be a legal tender and once they did it was a form of legal tender the states could accept it as a legal tender as well because THEY didn't declare it to be legal tender, which is what the clause restricted. The STATE didn't make it a legal tender, the Federal government did. And the Federal government was not restricted to gold and silver.